August Ferdinand Möbius
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August Ferdinand Möbius was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
Engraving of Möbius by Adolf Neumann, c. 1850
1843 copy of Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels
First page to a 1843 copy of Die Elemente der Mechanik des Himmels
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
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Johann Friedrich Pfaff was a German mathematician. He is best known for his work on differential equations and as Carl Friedrich Gauss's doctoral advisor.
August Ferdinand Möbius
…at the University of Göttingen, while Gauss was the director of the Göttingen Observatory. From there, he went to study with Carl Gauss's instructor, Johann Pfaff, at the University of Halle, where he completed his doctoral thesis The occultation of fixed stars in 1815. In 1816, he was appointed as Extraordinary…
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis, 1786